After Marty Makary claimed, with no evidence, that COVID19 vaccines killed children, Defend Public Health published this report on the topic. Now Prasad is making the same claims. These are not “unbiased” people. We don’t trust them & neither should you. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

The Secretary of Defense is a war criminal.

A brain injury specialist on science denialism and anosognosia (brain injury). Similar presentations, different causes and responses: elizabethsandelmd.com/insights/fly...

This is it for me. I'm not interested in whether she's a good writer (she's not) or *why* she's a trainwreck (yes, sketchy older men conditioned this behavior, sure; also she was 31 in 2024) or what she *thought* she was doing ($). This is the actual impact. newrepublic.com/article/2035...

newrepublic.com/article/2035.... A perfect takedown of Nuzzi’s normalization of RFK, Jr from a vaccine historian, who knows the consequences @defendpublichealth.bsky.social

@defendpublichealth.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/andreasa...

Ministry of Truth strikes again. Data-derived information can be found here: www.immunize.ca/resources/89

For this week’s Whopper of the Week, we have a look at RFK Jr.’s appointees to the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices and their ties to the anti-vaccine movement. You can read it below.

How to increase HIV deaths through budget cuts: billypenn.com/2025/11/18/h... @defendpublichealth.bsky.social

My cousin had this board game. It did not have squares for “buy a pardon,” “bypass Congress,” or “answer to billionaire donors.” Needs updating.

apnews.com/article/nih-...? NIH cuts have affected over 74,000 people enrolled in experiments, a new report says

apnews.com/article/abor...? South Carolina’s war on women: the most restrictive abortion bill in the US as opponents keep pushing limits.

The Quiet Export of American Historical Erasure open.substack.com/pub/harpp/p/... African-American soldiers removed from exhibit at US cemetery in the Netherlands.

I want to live in a country whose leaders and jurists don’t agree to deny food to the hungry, and a lot of other things. www.reuters.com/world/us/usd...

Enjoy this piece by @gregggonsalves.bsky.social that was a speech he gave at this years APHA!

@swingleft.bsky.social @swingleftphl.bsky.social A heartfelt thank you to everyone who knocked doors, called, donated, wrote letters, week after week, this was your reward. And now we have to do it again, and again, and again!

Truly Orwellian www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

We are urging the Senate to reject the nomination of Casey Means as U.S. Surgeon General. Means is a “health influencer” without discernible qualifications to be Surgeon General & who seems to make most of her living peddling unproven products

Why ALL HCWs should be vaccinated against Covid--by @drjudystone.bsky.social and Dr. Judith Feinberg. www.statnews.com/2025/10/30/c...

Our scary public health environment gets scarier every single day. We have to keep fighting the lies. abcnews.go.com/US/video/tex...

Hey y’all! NEXT THURSDAY, in lieu of our usual SFS general meeting, we will be having an info session for ANY STUDENT interested in science advocacy! High school, undergraduate, and graduate students welcome. ANY SCHOOL, ANY STATE, ANY MAJOR!

It's time for Trump & Republicans in Congress to fix healthcare, fund the government, and put working families first.

Whopper of the week! RFK Jr.’s Claims of “Immune Overload” is Nonsense and Ignores How the Immune System Works

The People’s House, Undermined open.substack.com/pub/harpp/p/...

Time write to your state elected officials

#SwingLeft #NoKings Listening to Jaime Raskin after arriving at Independence Park

#SwingLeftPHL #SwingLeft #NoKings. It’s a bring your own Liberty Bell kind of day here with tens of thousands at Independence National Park (closed by Republican government Shutdown)

kffhealthnews.org/news/article... No words @defendpublichealth.bsky.social

Hundreds of thousands of Pennsylvanians will be unable to purchase health care when the premiums rise---unless the Republicans end the shutdown and subsidize ACA premiums. whyy.org/articles/pen...

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025....

Religious leaders denied request to deliver communion to detainees at Broadview facility chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/.... GONNA FINISH THIS HEADLINE—BECAUSE THEY MIGHT SEE WHAT CONDITIONS ARE LIKE INSIDE

So, this is the new strategy? If it isn't broken, then just break it. #vaccination #IDSky #IPSky #publichealth www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-va...

Trump Administration Lays Off Dozens of C.D.C. Officials “Disease detectives,” high-ranking scientists, the entire Washington office and the staff of a weekly public health journal were among those who learned late Friday that they would lose their jobs. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

The new scientific method. @defendpublichealth.bsky.social

nypost.com/2025/10/09/u.... Scream? Cry? Both?

laist.com/news/politic... COMING SOON TO A HOSPITAL NEAR YOU? @defendpublichealth.bsky.social

It’s Wednesday so it’s time for the Whooper of the week! RFK Jr. is Dead Wrong Babies Won't Get Hepatitis B

Today I saved a ladybug floundering in a swimming pool. And then I cried because I wanted to be rescuing children from being zip tied by ICE or starved in Gaza or Sudan. We are failing millions of children everywhere.

RFK Jr. to the Senate & @wyden.senate.gov: “Scientists and doctors are supporting me all across the country…I’ll put my mailbag against your mailbag any day” Let’s prove him wrong Join @defendpublichealth.bsky.social's postcard campaign. Stand for truth, not RFK #VaccineTrust #PublicHealth #MedSky

@defendpublichealth.bsky.social Anyone old enough to remember the Hatch Act

My Equity Research Is Being Censored. I Knew This Day Was Coming. www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/seco...

👏 @donnagaffney.bsky.social & @nurseteria.bsky.social